It’s a useful heuristic, but I try to be very cautious about selecting heuristics that confirm what I would like to believe.
Intelligent machines are likely to one day be able to upload humans—but the chance of any individual modern human getting uploaded are probably pretty slender. So, you probably shouldn’t feel as though you have a personal stake.
It’s a useful heuristic, but I try to be very cautious about selecting heuristics that confirm what I would like to believe.
Intelligent machines are likely to one day be able to upload humans—but the chance of any individual modern human getting uploaded are probably pretty slender. So, you probably shouldn’t feel as though you have a personal stake.